Speaker
Dr
Tolga Güver
(Istanbul University)
Description
In this talk I will present the current state of mass and radius measurements of neutron stars in low mass X-ray binaries obtained during thermonuclear X-ray bursts or in quiescence. Taking into account a number of systematic uncertainties that may be present in
the measurements as well as the results of recent theoretical calculations we obtain strong and quantitative constraints on the properties of the equation of state between above
the nuclear saturation density. Our measurements strongly favor radii in the 9.9-11.2 km range for a ~1.5 M_{sun} neutron star.
